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Detroit Jewish kg.
32
SWISH NEWS
On Friday, Jan. 31,
The Detroit Jewish News
wil take ou behind
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I am greatly saddened by the
writer's personal disrespect for Arrogance
Rabbi Fellner and her hostility Is Distasteful
toward her own people. For cer-
tainly, we should be one people. I was both saddened and outr,
While I may not choose to observe to read about the arrogantotat.
Judaism in the manner in which ment accorded Conservadvdi
she chooses to observe, I would bi Azriel Pellner, who wa;
never he anti-Semitic toward my prohibited from merely addreR.
ing the bride and groom dutini
own people.
Does she personally accept and their wedding ceremony f 'Rex.
practice all 613 Torah command- ing A Rabbi" Jan. 10).
M y wife Shoshana and I cele-
ments? Does she accept, ab-
solutely, every dictate laid out by brated our 50th wedding an.
every rabbi, now and in the past? niversary last Thanksgivinglk
I doubt, if she is a thinking person, Our wedding took place at Cal
that she could do that. Indeed, our gregation Sit aarey Zedek, cad.
scholars have argued and inter- ciated by Rabbi Abraham
preted Torah, changing their out- Hershman, Rabbi Morris Adle
look and view as part of their and Rabbi Shlomo Kleinplatz,a1
discourse.
of blessed memory. Rabbi Kleip
as the
gatiroanbbBi eth
Judaism is not a stagnant be- dpolaxt&wrigre
of tlie
yet
lief. If it were, there would be no
Jewish people today. I would sug- He understood that God despi4
gest that the writer study, observe arrogance.
and pray as is meaningful and ap-
Emil Woht
propriate to her life. At the same
Oak Pad
time, I would hope that she would
look around her, really look, and Jonathan Pollard,
see that there are many ways of
observing Judaism meaningfully. A Hero
While other beliefs may not suit
her, her family or her children, she My family and I were deeply sad
should not be so self-righteous and dened with Publisher AnhurHa
stiff-necked as to believe her way witz's article "We've Goa
is the only way. Bigotry is evil Overboard with JonathanJaylli
lard," in the Jan. 10 edition
whoever practices it.
Hillel said, "Do not do unto oth-
ers as you would not have done
unto yourself" I suggest that the
writer contemplate that and, at
the same time, educate herself
about all aspects of Judaism. She
might be amazed at what she will
find.
She will disagree emotionally
and spiritually with others. How-
ever, she might be surprised, as
she studies the writings, teach-
ings, beliefs and practices of oth-
er branches of Judaism, that she
has more in common than she
might guess. I suspect that her dis-
respect for Rabbi Fellner and oth-
er movements in Judaism might
Jonathan Pollard
be tempered.
Judith Miller
Jonathan Pollard is an ardent
Bloomfield Hills Zionist. He was always interest-
ed in Israel and devoted to Israel's
The Analogy
security. The documents that he
guarded on behalf of Israel's sur-
Took Chutzpah
vival prevented the possible de-
The Jewish News of Jan. 10 had struction of Israel by Iraq's nuclear
an article by Rabbi Azriel C. Fell- reactor.
ner.
We definitely disagree very
The writer of this letter fully strongly with your insensitivity
agrees with the rabbi that a great on the analysis of what really Iran-
injustice had been done to him by spired with the Pollard situation.
Without Pollard's heroic action
shaming him as indicated in the
article.
in providing Israel with the nec-
But I am incensed by the au- essary security information, Israel
dacity of the rabbi when he com- would have been unable to bomb
pares the differences in opinion the nuclear reactor in Iraq.
In many cases, facts are dis-
between the Orthodox and the
Conservative and Reform as the torted with unreliable, half-baked
same as the House of Shammai conjecture.
How dare you falsely accuse
and Bais Hillel. I must say that it
takes a lot of chutzpah to come up Mr. Pollard? We deem his actions
with such an analogy.
most honorable.
Manny Mittelman
Southfield
Rhoda and Evelyn Wallace
Southfield